Why Rust is Becoming the New C++
It was 2 AM, and I was staring at yet another segmentation fault in our C++ codebase. The issue? A subtle memory ownership problem buried deep in our threading logic. After spending hours with Valgrind and GDB, I finally tracked down the culprit: a classic use-after-free bug that only manifested under heavy load.
That was three years ago. Last week, I completed a similar multi-threaded component in Rust, and despite my best efforts to break it with stress testing, it remains rock solid. The compiler caught my potential race conditions and memory issues before the code even ran.
This stark contrast is why I believe Rust is steadily replacing C++ for new systems programming projects. It's not happening overnight—C++ has a 40-year head start and billions of lines of existing code—but the shift is undeniable.